Hi guys! I have to manage Windows Server 2008 using Chef.. First of all, I need to choose the strategy for bootstrapping the new node and I am going to use an unattended bootstrap.. Configuring network card to talk with 33.33.33.10 (my Chef server) Download and install chef-client for Windows from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-client/windows/ Copy client.rb and validation.pem to […]
Install Chef Server on Suse Linux Enterprise 11
Hi Folks! Today I dealt with a problem… and I found a solution because Chef is a great tool! At moment there is not an RPM for Suse Linux available from the official website, but this does not matter 🙂 Problem: Install Chef Server, Chefdk, Chef-manage into a Suse Linux Enterprise 11 virtual machine without installing the […]
Autoscaling with EC2 and Chef
Dear all, It has been a long time since my last post and here I am with a new one, just to keep track of my current study case… I would like to put in place an auto-scaling mechanism for my lab platform. Currently I have one Ha-Proxy load balancer with 2 backends. I will perform stress test on my […]
Build chef LWRP and manage OpenSSH server banner with Chef
Hi guys, in this article we will se how to build a small LWRP Chef cookbook..The final result will be: ssh_banner_banner “banner” do banner_file _banner_file sshd_config_file node[‘ssh_banner’][‘sshd_config_file’] paranoic_mode true action :create notifies :restart, “service[sshd]” end If “paranoic mode” is true, chef will change configuration file and restart sshd, but after 20 seconds (by default) it […]
Setting up Wildfly8 Cluster in 5 minutes with Chef and Vagrant
Hi! This is my first post of this blog and I would like start with my last cookbook “wildfly-clu”. We will create a simple Wildlfy cluster(domain mode) composed by 3 servers. For this test I will use CentOS release 6.3 (Final). Final result: Reach HelloWorld application to http://myserver1/helloworld ( passing through reverse proxy) You […]